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Quotes About Policy

Whatever path they followed to get there, politicians in government are finding that their tenure is getting shorter and their power to shape policy is decaying. Politics was always the art of the compromise, but now politics is downright frustrating—sometimes it feels like the art of nothing at all.
~ Moisés Naím
Economists and sociologists have concluded that what drives migration is not absolute deprivation,50 or poverty,
~ Moisés Naím
El poderío militar ya no equivale a seguridad nacional
~ Moisés Naím
Financia masivos programas de empleos que no existen pero que pagan sueldos a los afortunados que los consiguen, subsidios, becas, regalos y dádivas de todo tipo.
~ Moisés Naím
With their ability to move billions of dollars at the speed of light away from a country whose economic policies they distrust, hedge funds are just one of the many financial institutions whose
~ Moisés Naím
toda empresa grande debe tener acceso e influencia con el gobierno, independientemente de quién esté a cargo del mismo.
~ Moisés Naím
The outlay for defense was 4.6 percent of the GDP in 1950; by 1953 it had risen to 13.8 percent. In 1940 the federal budget devoted 16 percent to defense; in 1959, more than 50 percent. By 1955, the American alliance system circled the globe, and we were pledged to the defense of practically everybody, including a host of despots and autocrats. The
~ Morris Berman
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
~ Moshe Dayan
Disinvestment has put economy in bad shape.
~ Unknown
Reminded that the Commonwealth was already involved in pre-school and university education, Chifley replied: "That's different – they're for kids before they've got souls and after they've lost them.
~ Unknown
Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
A government that has a permanent standing army at its disposal will always be tempted to use it, and to use it in an aggressive, interventionist, and warlike manner.
~ Murray N. Rothbard
My government will respect the will of the people.
~ Mwai Kibaki
Any political party that does not respect or consider the importance of nature in general cannot be tolerated within society.
~ Unknown
Birth control methods have no benefit, whatsoever, for the multitude. But they are only useful to the government that wishes to control its small populated nation.
~ Unknown
Housing is a key factor in any society that can't be ignored, if the leader truly cares about the health and mental wellbeing of the population.
~ Unknown
Only socialism promises the rule of the many and it is the only policy that applies the concept of democracy.
~ Unknown
Philosophy can't be avoided if any nation is striving to become a developed country.
~ Unknown
Since you keep claiming that health is much greater compared to wealth, then how come you still follow the policy that puts profit before people?
~ Unknown
Socialism is the only political form that has democratic values.
~ Unknown
Too much government tax erases all the truth and trust left in a businessman's head and heart.
~ Unknown
Busing, affirmative action, and abortion are but the three most glaring areas in which the justices have made law from the bench, with no constitutional license to do so.
~ Myron Magnet
When eugenicists thought of degenerates, they automatically focused on the South. To make his point, Davenport said outright that if a federal policy regulating immigration was not put in place, New York would turn into Mississippi.
~ Unknown
Jackson's thinking shaped his Indian removal policy as president. He argued that Indians should not be treated as sovereign nations with special claims on the public domain, but as a dependent class.
~ Unknown